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Thought this would be fun to talk about. Whenever you're writing/typing by hand, do you ever come across a hiragana or katakana or kanji you particularly hate? Or particularly love? Either for looks or because you just can't remember that stupid character? XD

I have some in mind...

Hates

と I don't like writing it and think it's a stupid hiragana. XD I dunno why...but I had a friend who felt the same because she was all "To's a stupid hiragana!!" lulz

翼髪雲鼻璽鳥置優

Those because not only are they a pain in the posterior to write but they look ridiculously big and bulky...blah.

Oh, and I really have a deep loathing for 嘘 because I can never remember how to write it haha.

Likes:

Oddly, I seem to like any kanji that have the radicals: 木水金糸穴火禾米 and the grass radical. I don't know...I just like how they look. lol

My かs always look retarded, though no one's ever called me out on it. I like ゆ though, because it looks like a fish.

I have a special dislike for any kanji with the road... radical thing, like 道 or 選 or such, mostly because I always proportion them wrong. I like ones that have the 糸 radical, because I perfected writing it when I took Chinese that one semester...

Other than that... I'll get back to you when I have more than an hour anda half of sleep.

~aka Xiao Cha~Let it be known that I loathe to see 重ねる/なる translated as "pile up."
Get a thesaurus, everyone's 和英!

I like Katakana more than Hiragana. I even learned Katakana before learning Hiragana! XD Yeah, when I first saw the Kana chart, other than asking myself "why the hell do they have two exactly identical scripts?", I thought that Katakana is cool and Hiragana looks lame, and I didn't refuse the urge to learn Katakana! But after I learned Hiragana, I don't think it's lame anymore. I just hate many of its characters that look similar, most notably は/ほ/ま. Also, ふ makes me loathe.

As for Kanji, I like characters like 悪, 竜, 雷, 電話, 忍者/術, because they look cool and they have cool meanings! (But not telephone :P, just looks cool.) I also like 光, 月, 先, 神. Oh, and I also happened to like the kanji 裸!! XD It looks funny and it has a funny meaning, too! It's also funny that I like the honorific prefix 御, and I always use it instead of leaving it as お/ご like the Japanese do. (御金 and 御飯 instead of お金 and ご飯!)

Nope. There was a discussion about this a long time ago and I was one of only two who responded saying they learned katakana first.

I can see why hiragana should be learned first in formal teaching because it is the "standard" Japanese text, as opposed to katakana which is used for loanwords or to italicise Japanese words. But katakana mastery is helpful in quite a few situations such as reading and converting foreigner names and places and the like.

As for me I began with hiragana! It seems more simple to me Though I had problems with writing "fu", "ya" and "ka" And in katakana I couldn't see any difference between ソ, ン, シ, and ッ for a very long time

My memories are a bit fuzzy now, but I'm pretty sure we did hiragana first. And I wouldn't say one's necessarily easier than the other; if anything, katakana is harder (for me) because of all the ones that look really similar. But either way, it's still a whole new writing system, so...